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SFMTA to Name Bond Yee as Sustainable Streets Director

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 5, 2010 | 13 Comments

Yee at a press conference recently celebrating the Valencia Streetscape Improvement Project. Photo: Bryan Goebel. Bond Yee, a veteran traffic engineer who has spent thirty years designing and managing San Francisco’s streets, will be named to fill the recently created Sustainable Streets Director position permanently, Streetsblog has learned. Yee was appointed interim director of the […]

Landscapers Used Banned Pesticide on New Marin County Bike Path

By Tom Murphy | Aug 4, 2010 | 2 Comments

Photo: MCBC Marin County’s ribbon cutting and celebratory ride Monday in the Alameda del Prado bike lanes – a long-missing link in the county’s North-South bikeway – was followed by the revelation that landscapers used a weedkiller banned under the county’s strict pesticide law. The $950,000 project closed a mile-long gap between Ignacio Boulevard and […]

Eyes on the Street: SFMTA Installs Green Bike Lane on Fell Street

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 3, 2010 | 19 Comments

Photos: Bryan Goebel In its best attempt yet to prevent drivers from obstructing the bike lane on a troubled section of Fell Street, alongside the Arco station, the SFMTA painted the lane green today, along with the dashed lane from mid-block to Divisadero Street, as part of its new configuration. Michael Helquist of BIKE NOPA […]

Advocates say Bicycle Riders Could Save Caltrain from Service Cuts

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 3, 2010 | 35 Comments

Photo: sfbike With Caltrain facing a $2.3 million deficit, and its governing board considering service cuts and fare hikes, bicycle advocates from three Bay Area counties who have been leading the call for more bicycle capacity have calculated that the commuter rail line could stave off reductions if it would just accommodate the increasing demand […]

Grassroots Coalition Jumps Into the Fight to Protect AB32

By Fran Taylor | Jul 28, 2010 | 9 Comments

A protest earlier this year against efforts to rollback AB 32. Photo: Ella Baker Center A new coalition launching in the coming weeks is mobilizing groups with deep roots in their communities to take on Proposition 23, a measure on the November ballot that seeks to overturn AB32, California’s landmark greenhouse gas regulation bill. Communities […]

Bike Tour Taps San Francisco’s Water Innovations

By Matt Baume | Jul 27, 2010 | 4 Comments

Blair Randall shows off the rain barrels. Photo: Matt Baume When most San Franciscans turn on a faucet, they’ll see water that’s traveled as far as two hundred miles from Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. But that’s not the case for some locally-minded gardeners, for whom careful water stewardship is as important as […]

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